Comparative Religious Voting : Mechanisms of Politicization in Post-cleavage Elections
(2023) Religious Voting in Western Democracies: Past Legacies and New Conflicts — ISBN: [0198807856], p. 200-230, published
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- This chapter claims that religious voting is a mechanism of politicization different from the previous ones, such as cleavage politics. This chapter theorizes and tests two distinct (re)politicization mechanisms of religious voting in Europe. The first one, labelled as party-based religious voting mode, is a mechanism through which parties trigger religious considerations in voters’ minds based on long-term identities or images. The second one, defined as election-based religious voting mode, is instead a process revolving around party competition, usually in election time, whereby political actors mobilize voters’ consensus by emphasizing specific positions on religious and/or moral issues. Empirical analyses, derived from individual and party-level data related to a series of post-cleavage general elections held between 1989 and 2014, show not only that religiosity matters in European voters’ choices over the selected period, but also that both (re)politicization mechanisms are to some extent at play.
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Sanz, A., Camatarri, S., Segatti, P., & Montero, J. R. (2023). Comparative Religious Voting : Mechanisms of Politicization in Post-cleavage Elections. In Kerman Calvo, José Ramón Montero, Paolo Segatti (Eds.) (ed.), Religious Voting in Western Democracies: Past Legacies and New Conflicts (p. p. 200-230). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198807858.003.0007